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TN: Gang attacks man, molests his wife; held

8 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Cuddalore New Town police in Tamil Nadu on Thursday arrested four men on charges of kidnapping a pregnant woman and attempting to molest her at a secluded spot on Monday...

Freed bonded labourer gears up for local poll

8 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

43-year-old Varalakshmi, who was a bonded labourer for eight years, has filed nomination for the post of ward councilor of Kanniyapuram village panchayat in Tiruvallur district, in the local body elections...

TN health secy explains benefits of JICA support

11 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The health secretary, who is on a two-day visit to Madurai, inspected the 200-acre AIIMS site on Thursday. It is a Rs 1,264crore project...

TN: Stalin demands probe into use of M-sands

12 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

DMK president M K Stalin on Friday demanded a probe into the use of M-sand by the Greater Chennai Corporation in laying footpaths...

Police excesses: TN to pay Rs 50,000 to man

13 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the Tamil Nadu government to pay Rs 50,000 to a man who moved the commission alleging that the Kulasekarapattinam police had assaulted him and foisted false cases against him...

IIT-M suicide case: HC suggests CBI probe

13 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Madras high court on Friday suggested that the investigation into the death of IIT-Madras student Fathima Latheef 'may be' transferred to CBI considering the controversy it created which was followed by agitations and protests...

TN: 4 of a family from Trichy found dead

16 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Four members of a family from Trichy, including two children, were found dead on a railway track near Kodai Road railway station in Dindigul district on Friday...

LED lights along stop-lines on Marina removed

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

LED flickering lights which were installed along stop-lines on Marina six months ago, were pulled out last week after they stopped functioning. ..

TN man held for posting child porn on Facebook

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Trichy in the early hours of Thursday for sharing child porn contents on Facebook in what could be the first arrest in the hunt for perpetrators of child pornography in Tamil Nadu. ..

MKU to establish school of biomedical sciences

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The academic council of the Madurai Kamaraj University on Thursday decided to establish a school of biomedical sciences to cater to the needs of the bio-medical institutions and biotechnological industries...

Civic polls: Chairpersons' reservation notified

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

After mayoral seats, Tamil Nadu government has notified reservation of offices of the chairpersons of municipalities for people belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and for women. The state has 121 municipalities...

Man held for unnatural sex with cow in TN

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Kothavalchavadi police here on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man for having unnatural sex with a cow...

Bill on citizenship leaves Sri Lankan Tamils a dejected lot

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Citizenship Amendment Bill has left Sri Lankan Tamils living in Tamil Nadu for years not just disappointed but hurt...

TN: Villagers carry man’s body in cloth cradle

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

In the absence of a proper road, villagers of Nekkanamalai near Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur district were on Tuesday forced to carry the body of a deceased man in a cloth cradle. Nakkanamalai, 7km from Komanampatti junction, home to about 167 families...

TN: Engineering student ends life in hostel room

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A first year engineering student committed suicide on hostel premises near Thiruporur on Tuesday. While the reason behind suicide is still unknown, police are inquiring to find if he took the extreme step due to ragging...

Chennai Corporation to form panel to monitor water bodies

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Greater Chennai Corporation, which has restored more than 130 water bodies within city limits this year, will form committees at the zonal level to monitor restored water bodies periodically to prevent encroachments and inflow of sewage...

Three men electrocuted in Tamil Nadu

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Three people, including two siblings, were electrocuted near Peralam in Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday...

CAB a betrayal of democracy, Kamal Haasan says

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Actor and MNM chief Kamal Haasan on Wednesday criticised the BJP government for “tampering with” the country’s flawless Constitution. He said it is a betrayal of the people and democracy...

Gold, money stolen from locked house in Madurai

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Unidentified people broke into the house of a bank manager here and decamped with gold jewellery weighing 776 gram and Rs 1.65 lakh in cash...

TN: 8-month-old falls from fifth floor, survives

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A curious toddler who crawled out of the balcony of a fifth-floor apartment survived the 50-foot fall: she landed on a two-wheeler parked on the street...

Dial to get sewerage connection in just 15 days

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Getting a domestic sewer connection in Chennai is just a phone call away now. Dial 044-45674567 and a sewer connection will be provided in 15 days...

Chennai: Drunk man drowns in 2 feet of rainwater

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A 60-year-old man, who was under the influence of alcohol, drowned on Tuesday in two-foot-deep water that had accumulated on a vacant plot following the recent rain. ..

Tamil Nadu: Onion prices fall in Chennai

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The cost of premium quality onion dropped to Rs 130 per kilogram in the wholesale market in Chennai and some varieties were sold for Rs 60 per kg, a day after a few private traders imported more than 35 tonne of onion from Egypt...

CAB: AIADMK reposes faith in Amit Shah

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The ruling AIADMK, a key constituent of the NDA, on Monday extended support - outside Parliament - to the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) that seeks to amend the 64-year-old law aiming to grant immunity to only non-Muslim refugees who faced religious persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The lone AI- ADMK member in the Lok Sa- bha, P Raveendranath Kumar, however, did not take part in the discussion when the matter was taken up in the House...

Chennai: Public address systems in 50 new buses

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Passengers travelling by MTC buses need not bug those sitting next to them to know when they will reach their destination. They need not wait for the conductor to announce either...

TN: Elections to rural local bodies notified

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Tamil Nadu state election commission on Monday notified elections to rural local bodies in 27 districts. The elections will be held in two phases — on December 27 and 30. Elections to the remaining nine districts will be held later. The notification, issued on an extraordinary gazette, followed the Supreme Court order on December 6...

Civic polls: 91 nominations received in Madurai

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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Chennai to host conference on school culture

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Chennai-based international school KC High is hosting a conference -- “School Culture in the Digital Age: How the Internet has changed the Human Experience” – on its Navalur campus here on December 13 and 14...

Elections to TN rural local bodies notified

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Tamil Nadu state election commission on Monday notified the elections to the rural local bodies in 27 districts in the state. The elections will be held in two phases -- on December 27 and 30. Elections to the remaining nine districts will be held later...

3 Chennai temple tanks remain dry despite rain

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

At a time when several temple tanks in the city have recorded a steep rise in their water level this monsoon, some tanks located in their vicinity are not so lucky and continue to remain bone dry...

Commuting in public, with a stalker for company

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

In the last one year, Suganya Annadurai has switched her choice of transport from suburban train to bus to autorickshaw and has appealed to her company HR twice to change her shift to a non-peak hour. These days, her morning goal isn’t as much to reach work on time, as it is to reach without being roughed up and violated en-route...

MNM not to contest TN local body elections

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Actor Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) has decided not to contest the ensuing local body polls in Tamil Nadu. Elections to the rural local bodies are slated for December 27 and 30...

After row, Telugu replaces Hindi at Tamil Centre

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Tamil Nadu government has decided to withdraw Hindi as an optional language at the International Tamil Research Centre in Chennai. The decision comes in the wake of pressure being mounted by DMK and other opposition parties which accused Tamil culture minister K Pandiarajan of giving Hindi more importance. Soon after the news was out that Hindi had been replaced by Telugu, DMK president M K Stalin dubbed it “a victory” for his party...

Coimbatore and Chennai safest for women, kids

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Is Bengaluru as unsafe for women as Delhi? Is Jaipur India’s con capital? A comparison of crime figures for India’s 18 largest cities throws up many surprises. Seemingly safe cities can appear unsafe when crimes are compared on their gravity rather than their total numbers...

'Why can’t unmarried couple share a hotel room'

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

When a live-in relationship between two adults is not deemed an offence, how can the occupation of a hotel room by an unmarried couple be considered a crime?..

TN: Three youths washed away in Velankanni

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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Litterbugs choke Chennai’s waterways

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

If you’re walking towards Chennai Central on the Park Town bridge next to Buckingham Canal, you can't miss the stench. And it comes from the waterway, which is filled with plastic and thermocol that block the flow...

Chennai: Metrowater to study groundwater withdrawal

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Metrowater will soon hire a private agency to find out how much groundwater is being drawn in various parts of the city. It will also find out the number of open wells and borewells in the city and the groundwater levels in different areas. This is because hardly anyone responded when it asked house-owners to register their wells with it...

Jealous woman tries to kidnap lover’s colleague

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Police arrested a gang of three women who posed as cops and attempted to kidnap a woman railway employee at Guindy station on Thursday...

TN: 4 held for hunting animals, uploading videos

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Amid a growing chorus of outrage at authorities’ failure to protect endangered animals from poachers, four people were apprehended from Ariyalur district on charges of hunting wild animals, video-graphing the action before loading it onto a video-sharing platform for monetary gain on Friday...

Woman dies as bus overturns in Tamil Nadu

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A woman died and 16 other passengers suffered injuries when a private bus overturned after falling into a roadside channel near Cheranmahadevi in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu on Friday...

TN: 'Declare Dec 6 as traditional paddy day'

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The first death anniversary of Nel Jayaraman, an organic farming crusader, was observed by the farmers and school students in Tiruvarur on Friday...

TN local polls: DMK welcomes SC verdict

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

DMK president M K Stalin on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court judgment that local body elections in Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupattur, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Kancheepuram and Chengalpet districts in Tamil Nadu should be held only after completing delimitation of wards...

Chennai: 3 men on bike rob banker at knifepoint

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Three bike-borne men on Wednesday attacked a bank employee near Gopalapuram and relieved him of his gold chain, ring and watch...

TN: Rain likely this weekend, say weathermen

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Don’t forget to grab your umbrella if you are stepping out of your home this weekend as weathermen have forecast another round of rain after the brief dry spell...

Chennai Metro gets 3 trains from Alstom factory

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Three new metro train sets with four cars each was delivered to CMRL at its depot in Koyambedu by Alstom factory -- situated in Sri City in Andhra Pradesh -- on Thursday...

TN: 2 boys suffer acid burns while cleaning lab

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Two Class VII students in a government aided school in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu suffered burns on Thursday when a bottle containing acid broke after falling from the hand of one of them...

Arasakumar joins DMK days after praising Stalin

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

BJP Tamil Nadu unit vice-president B T Arasakumar, who hit headlines on Sunday for praising DMK president M K Stalin, on Thursday formally joined the Dravidian party...

Man held for sexually abusing kid in Chennai

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A 55-year-old van driver was arrested for sexually assaulting a five-yearold girl while driving her home from school at Perambur on Tuesday...

TN: Denied loan, man pulls gun on banker

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The city police on Tuesday arrested a Somayampalayam-based businessman for brandishing an air gun and attacking the chief manager of the Canara Bank’s Sungam branch after he allegedly refused to sanction a loan...

Chennai: PWD checks for sewage at reservoirs

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Public works department (PWD) officials on Wednesday lifted water samples from Chembarambakkam and Red Hills reservoirs to check sewage and effluent contamination...

Swachh Campus: MSU in TN ranked fifth

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu has bagged the fifth place in the Swachh Campus Ranking 2019 for higher educational institutions that was done by the Union ministry of human resource and development. The varsity has got the ranking in the government residential universities category...

10 ganja peddlers held in TN's Madurai dist

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Police on Tuesday arrested 10 ganja peddlers from different parts of Madurai district and seized a total of 14.4kg of ganja from them...

Gold worth Rs 15 lakh seized at Chennai airport

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Customs officials at Chennai airport on Tuesday seized gold worth nearly 15 lakh from two passengers, who arrived from Sharjah and Sri Lanka...

Give transsexuals a chance at cops' test: HC

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Madras high court has warned the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) that it would be constrained to stall the entire Grade-II police constable selection process, if the board failed to comply with an earlier order permitting five transsexuals to take the physical test by December 6...

E-autos launched by TN CM yet to ply for public

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Electric autos, launched by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswai last week, are yet to be available for public use. There is no option available in the official app to book e-auots and no such vehicle could be seen on the road for hire...

Family of three found dead in Tamil Nadu

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Three members of a family, including a five-year-old boy, were found dead in their house near Sengottai in Tenkasi district on Tuesday morning. Inquiries revealed that the boy’s father had strangled him and his mother using a cloth and later killed self by hanging...

Transformer goes up in flames at TN substation

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A transformer went up in flames at a power substation in Pugalur near Karur in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday...

Farmer hacked to death in Tamil Nadu

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A 65-year-old farmer was hacked to death by unidentified people in his farmhouse located on the Mangalam-Arapakkam Road in Tiruvannamalai district in the early hours of Tuesday...

'Onion prices may not come down till mid-Jan'

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

With supplies dwindling further, onion prices in neighbourhood shops touched Rs 140 per kg. Online prices went up to Rs 190...

DMK slams TN govt over funds for researchers

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

DMK on Tuesday criticised the Tamil culture department for allocating Rs 6 lakh for M Phil students and research scholars at the International Tamil Research Centre to learn Hindi...

5 held for sexually assaulting minor in Chennai

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Triplicane all-woman police on Monday arrested five men on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl...

Riverbeds on Chennai's outskirts turn dumpyards

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Dumping of biomedical waste continues unabated on riverbeds and vacant plots on the city’s outskirts in areas including Thiruneermalai, Kundrathur, Anakaputhur and Vandalur. Civic activists, concerned about the dumping, have questioned the role of authorities in preventing the menace...

Trial in rape, murder of 4-yr-old to begin today

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The trial in the sensational June 27 rape and murder of a four-year-old girl at Thirumullaivoyal is set to begin at the Mahila Court in Tiruvallur on Tuesday. The victim's father and mother and two other witnesses are set to depose before the court on the first day, a police officer said...

BJP leader Arasakumar asked to skip party events

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

BJP’s state unit on Monday initiated disciplinary action against party’s state vice-president B T Arasakumar who hailed DMK president M K Stalin on Sunday stating that the latter would become the chief minister in an “appropriate time.”..

Tamil Nadu local body polls on Dec 27, 30

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Tamil Nadu state election commission on Monday announced that polls in rural local bodies in the state will be held in two phases on December 27 and 30...

20 firms visit IIT-Madras, 102 students bag jobs

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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2 dead, 3 injured in accident on ECR, 1 held

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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Tirunelveli: Rain claims one life; schools closed

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Heavy rain that lashed several parts of Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, claimed the life of an 81-year-old man near Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district on Sunday...

TN: Met predicts more rains in next two days

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Rain lashed many parts of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Puducherry with the North-East monsoon triggering a heavy spell in the last 24 hours claiming one life in the state capital, even as the Met office predicted more showers in the next two days...

Delta districts rain: Four dead, dams under watch

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Heavy rain that lashed most parts of the delta districts on Saturday claimed four lives and damaged several houses and the compound wall of a temple...

Bihar duo nabbed for killing bizman in Chennai

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A week after A Prabakaran of Vyasarpadi, an industrial unit owner, was murdered in Ambattur Industrial Estate, police have arrested two people, including a juvenile, from Bihar..

Chennai: Actor Radha Ravi, Namitha join BJP

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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Centre tells TN govt to maintain vigil on dams

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

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BJP, AIADMK like ‘hubby and wife’: Muralidhar Rao

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

BJP national general secretary Muralidhar Rao on Friday said the relationship between his party and AIADMK was like that of “husband and wife” and matters between them could not be discussed or disclosed in a public forum...

'At IIT-Madras, SC/ST faculty, students harassed'

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) employees at Indian Institute of Technology Madras faced discrimination and mental harassment, said Swaraj Vidwaan, member, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Friday...

TN: Thief falls into river while being chased

14 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Fire and rescue services personnel on Friday continued searches for an unidentified man who fell into a river near Tirupur in Tamil Nadu on Thursday evening while trying to escape with a brass lamp (kuthuvilakku) which he stole from a house...

Chennai: 35k cases of illegal parking in one week

22 hours ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Chennai traffic police have registered 35,000 cases against people who had parked their two-wheelers and cars illegally in no-parking zones in the past week...

GCC demolishes temple encroaching on pavement

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Following a direction from the Madras high court, Greater Chennai Corporation on Thursday demolished a temple that was encroaching a pavement in the corner of Armenian Street on NSC Bose Road. ..

Chennai: Ennore thermal proj expansion gets nod

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Union environment ministry has given clearance for the expansion of Ennore thermal project near Chennai. The ministry had given nod for the project with a capacity of 660MW in 2009, but Tangedco could not complete the project, and in 2014, the ministry extended the clearance for another five years ending in 2019. ..

TN: Nearly 450 projects registered with TNRERA

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Nearly 450 housing projects were registered with the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA) this year, till December 10...

Tobacco Monitor files plaint against movie crew

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

he Tobacco Monitor has filed a complaint against the Vijay 64 movie crew for violating laws by smoking tobacco in a school for the blind in Chennai. The NGO has sent a complaint to the Tobacco Control Board and the secretary of the department of differently abled...

HC refuses to stay release of Queen, Thalaivi

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Madras high court has refused to stall releases of web series “Queen” and movie “Thalaivi,” which were inspired by the life of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa...

Tamil Nadu lied before courts on delimitation: M K Stalin

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

DMK president M K Stalin on Wednesday accused the state government of lying in court on the delimitation exercise. He told mediapersons at the party headquarters that the then municipal administration secretary Hansraj Verma had told the Madras high court in 2016 that the delimitation of wards was being done based on the 1991 census...

Boy on footboard of MTC bus crushed to death

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

An 11-year-old boy travelling on the footboard of an MTC bus died on Wednesday morning after he slipped and came under the rear wheels of the vehicle which was about to enter the T Nagar bus terminus...

Security check at Chennai airport gets faster

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Passengers may no longer have to wait in long queues at security check at domestic terminal as AAI has speeded up screening of cabin bags by introducing an automatic system to move bags and trays on the conveyor connected to baggage scanner...

Automobile firm denudes Ashoka trees; charged

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

An automobile agency in the city allegedly pruned three fully grown Ashoka trees leaving the trunk alone near its premises at Cantonment on Wednesday...

TNPSC postpones departmental exams

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) has postponed departmental exams scheduled to be held from December 22 to 30 in view of local body elections. Now, the exams will be conducted from January 5 to 12...

HCs can grant bail in cases filed under SC/ST Act

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Though SC/STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 bars anticipatory bail people facing cases under the Act, high courts can still grant them the relief by invoking their inherent power under Section 482 of CrPC and, ruled Madras high court on Wednesday...

Sale of nursery pots made prison inmates opened

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Deputy inspector general of police (prisons) D Pazhani on Wednesday inaugurated sale of nursery pots manufactured by Madurai Central Prison inmates...

Chennai: 3 months pregnant woman dies of snakebite

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A pregnant woman died from a snakebite in Poonamallee on Tuesday night on the way to the hospital...